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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.

Terence McKenna

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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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